{"title":"Hormone replacement therapy for osteoporosis: clinical and pathophysiological aspects","authors":"J. Compston","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130481056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of sperm creatine kinase in the assessment of male fertility","authors":"G. Huszar","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"106 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127457758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. V. Steirteghem, P. Nagy, Ji-Long Liu, H. Joris, J. Smitz, M. Camus, P. Devroey, M. Bonduelle
{"title":"Intracytoplasmic sperm injection - ICSI","authors":"A. V. Steirteghem, P. Nagy, Ji-Long Liu, H. Joris, J. Smitz, M. Camus, P. Devroey, M. Bonduelle","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000879","url":null,"abstract":"For more than a decade in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been successful in the treatment of couples with long-standing infertility due to various aetiologies such as tubal disease, male-factor infertility, unexplained infertility and endometriosis. The usual fertilization rate in IVF for nonmale infertility cases is 60–70% of the inseminated cumulus-oocyte complexes and in andrological infertility it is only 20–30%. The lower the number of normally fertilized oocytes, the less chance there is of available embryos, so that patients may have no embryos to transfer. It has been the experience of all centres for reproductive medicine, including our own, that a certain number of couples with male-factor infertility cannot be helped by standard IVF treatment. After insemination with progressively motile spermatozoa the number of two-pronuclear oocytes was either zero or less than 5%. Furthermore, a sizeable number of couples cannot be accepted for IVF if the number of progressively motile spermatozoa in the ejaculate is below a certain threshold number such as 500 000. In the past five years, assisted fertilization procedures have been developed to circumvent the barriers that prevent sperm access to the ooplasma, namely the zona pellucida and the ooplasmic membrane. Pregnancies and births have been reported after partial zona dissection (PZD) and subzonal insemination (SUZI). The success rate of PZD and SUZI has remained moderate: the normal fertilization rate (two-pronuclear oocytes) has never exceeded 20–25% of the micromanipulated oocytes; only two-thirds of the patients have had embryo transfers of, usually, a low number of embryos, resulting in a reduced pregnancy and take-home baby rate.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134487765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genes and phenotypes of the human Y chromosome","authors":"A. J. Schafer","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132131009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterosexual spread of HIV infection","authors":"P. Stratton, N. Alexander","doi":"10.1017/S096227990000082X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S096227990000082X","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual transmission is the most common route of spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with heterosexual transmission of HIV infection accounting for 90% of those infected in 1992 and over 75% of the 10–12 million of those infected to date worldwide. Yet, heterosexual transmission is poorly understood. Since HIV can be transmitted from HIV-infected people who are asymptomatic as well as from those who have the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we must better define the potential for transmission of HIV from HIV-infected individuals as well as the factors which influence the susceptibility of HIV-uninfected individuals.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125386404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laboratory standards in routine clinical andrology","authors":"D. Mortimer","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000818","url":null,"abstract":"It is a fundamental principle of laboratory tests that they are never entirely free from error. However, understanding the source and extent of such errors is a prerequisite for correct appreciation and interpretation of test results in the diagnostic process. In order to evaluate these errors, quality control (QC) has been introduced into clinical laboratory tests and has become routine practice.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133175347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of cytokines in endometrium and at the fetomaternal interface","authors":"S. Tabibzadeh","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117004129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endometrial protein PP14: a new test of endometrial function?","authors":"T. Chard, F. Olajide","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000764","url":null,"abstract":"The human endometrium produces a number of proteins which are at least partly specific to that tissue. Two of these proteins have been the subject of much recent work. They were originally called ‘placental protein 12’ and ‘placental protein 14’ (PP12 and PP14) because they were isolated by Hans Bohn from extracts of whole placentae. However, it is now clear that they arise from the maternal endometrium (decidua) rather than the fetal trophoblast. Placental protein 12 has been shown to be identical to the insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1). It is produced in many normal tissues and its measurement probably does not provide a specific index of endometrial function. By contrast, PP14 is detectable only in ‘reproductive’ tissues and, in theory, might be an excellent clinical test of endometrial function.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129023961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"S Fishel, M Symonds 1993: Gamete and embryo micromanipulation in human reproduction . London: Edward Arnold. 226pp. £49.50 (HB). ISBN 0 340 57370 8.","authors":"A. Prentice","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129212822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cytogenetics of tumours of the female reproductive tract","authors":"P. Cin, H. Berghe","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000739","url":null,"abstract":"Tumours of the reproductive tract present with a great variety and diversity in males as well as in females. They originate from tissues which belong to different embryonic sheets or stem cells, and may appear at various ages, including younger age groups. Some are under hormonal control or influence, others may have a strong environmental component. It is becoming increasingly clear that in tumours, one or more molecular lesions at the DNA level are the causative factor. Their specificity may be very high and may also determine, in part, the phenotype and histology of the proliferation. Discovery of the genes involved was made possible by previous identification of chromosome changes typically occurring in certain tumours.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121924030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}